Dew Drop – April 2, 2015 (#1986)

Top Links

• Born in the Cloud (Steve Guggenheimer)
• Binding iOS Views with MVVMCross (Jason)
• Cloud Enable a WPF LOB App Part 1 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Microsoft Azure: Azure Notification Hubs: Best Practices for Managing Devices (Sara Silva)

Web Development

• Mutating Isolate Scope References In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• WebStorm 10 Compiles TypeScript 1.4 to JavaScript on the Fly (Abel Avram)
• Responsive Facebook Style Timeline Design With Bootstrap (jQuery Rain)
• Writing client-side ES6 with webpack (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Docker Tutorial 3 – Fun With Volumes (John Willis)
• Cutting Edge: Queryable Services (Dino Esposito)

XAML

• Hands-free WinRT: Part 2 – The Listening App (Jason Follas)
• Windows Phone 8 Succinctly: Integrating With the Operating System (Matteo Pagani)
• Modern Apps: A Mobile-First Approach to Modern App Development (Rachel Appel)
• What’s new in Windows 10 – Key Accelerators (Nigel Sampson)
• 3D maps with the Windows 10 Maps SDK (Joost van Schaik)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Pattern matching in action using C# 6 (Tomas Petricek)
• 2000 C# Things #1,220 – C# 6.0 – Defining a Parameterless Constructor for a struct (Sean Sexton)
• String and StringBuilder revisited (Phillip Trelford)
• Data Points: EF6 Code First Migrations for Multiple Models (Julie Lerman)
• Application Insights: Choose your own Performance Counters (Soubhagya Dash)
• [Announcement] ODataLib 6.11.0 Release and [Announcement] ODataLib 5.6.4 Release (Yi Ding)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Implementing Security in Your Agile Project (Luiza Nunes & Gustavo Freitas )
• Using AutoFixture To Generate Anonymous Test Data in Web UI Automation With BDDfy and Seleno (Jason Roberts)
• Ideas for Setting Up Remote Teams (Ben Linders)
• The no bugs journey part 3–what kind of bug is this? (Eric Gunnerson)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin future focus: Apple Watch apps (DevToolsGuy)
• Build a Native Mobile App with NativeScript and Sitefinity CMS (Steve McNiven-Scott)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – State of Microsoft Web Development Panel (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 297 – PowerScripting Podcast -Alan Renouf from VMware on PowerCLI 6 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• 153 JSJ Careers for Junior Developers with Aimee Knight (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance & Dave Smith)
• AAWP Insight #133: Device pricing, HTC M9 and Lumia 930 (Rafe Blandford)
• The Married Gamers Episode 362: Still Rocking (Chris Brown)
• The Amp Hour #243 – An interview with Macrofab – Macro Manufacturing Mechanization (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 224: Sven Johann and Eberhard Wolff on Technical Debt (SE-Radio Team)
• Azure Podcast – Ibiza Portal (Sujit D’Mello)
• Our Xbox One app has launched! (Cara & Duncan Mackenzie)

Community / Events

• Spring Forward with Xamarin Events in April (Jayme Singleton)
• Congratulations New and Renewed MVPs – No April Fools! (MVP Award Program)
• The first US MVP Open Days was a success (Chris Miller)
• Infragistics Benefits for Microsoft MVPs (Dara Monasch)

Database

• SQL SERVER – 3 Common Mistakes of Agile Development – Notes from the Field #074 (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

• Move to PowerShell for WinRM Management (J. Keith Bankston)

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading April 1, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 4/2/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Links of the month (March Edition) (Jan Hentschel)
• The Morning Brew #1833 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-04-02 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-04-02 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for April 1st, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Announcing the Telerik Developer Digest (Brian Rinaldi)

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